Enterprise Architecture Training in Grand Rapids

This instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level software professionals who wish to understand how to architect distributed systems that scale efficiently and handle failure gracefully.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design distributed systems that handle load, latency, and failure.
• Understand key architectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and CQRS.
• Evaluate trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance (CAP theorem).
• Choose appropriate communication, storage, and coordination strategies.

This instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals and ICT service managers who wish to understand and apply ITSM fundamentals and practices based on ITIL 4.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand key concepts and structure of ITIL 4.
• Apply service design and architecture practices aligned with ITIL 4 principles.
• Implement effective delivery and sustainability of ICT services.
• Evaluate real-world cases and simulate ITSM practices.

This instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to advanced-level architects and professionals in the field of enterprise architecture who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding and practical skills in utilizing the NAF for enterprise architecture. It covers all aspects without focusing on specific views or functions. Sparx Enterprise Architect or any other preferred tools are used.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate NAF documentation efficiently.
• Utilize Sparx Enterprise Architect for architecture-related tasks.
• Describe and understand different types of NATO architectures.
• Generate and interpret NATO Architecture Views.
• Identify and analyze stakeholders and Communities of Interest (CoIs).
• Align stakeholders' interests with the architecture.
• Analyze and document CoI's architecture interests and impacts.

This instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at IT personnel who wish to learn how to correctly and properly install a structured cabling system in any building or structure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the concept and infrastructure elements of a structured cabling system.
• Install and test a cabling system correctly.
• Learn the industry standards, techniques, and equipment used for a structured cabling system.

This is a 2-day course that focuses on simulating SysML models.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at those who wish to use Cameo Simulation Toolkit to effectively create and run SysML diagrams and models.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Prepare and configure SysML diagrams for simulation.
• Execute Activity diagrams.
• Execute State Machine diagrams.
• Execute Parametric diagrams.
• Execute Sequence diagrams.

To attend this course the participant should meet the prerequisities and have a good understanding of the SysML diagrams.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This is a 3-day training covering principles of modeling, UML, SysML and use of MagicDraw or Cameo following a case study, which demonstrates a typical model-based systems engineering approach.

The course:

• Includes lectures and hands-on practice in using MagicDraw or Cameo for systems modeling using SysML;
• Explains major SysML concepts and diagrams;
• Provides hands-on experience building system model examples;
• Shows how to trace model elements in different views;
• Explains how to use MagicDraw features efficiently;
• Is based on a consistent modeling case study.

Audience:

• System architects, system engineers, software architects and other stakeholders who will create and use models.

Methods:

• Presentations, discussions, and case study-based practical assignments.

Course Materials:

• Slides, case study model, and practical assignment descriptions.

Certificates:

• Each participant receives NobleProg certificate indicating that he/she attended the training.

The course extends possessed knowledge of UML. During the training, we focus on the practical use of the language of the UML object-oriented analysis.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals who wish to use AI to accelerate their systems and software engineering work. If you've been wondering how to use AI to dramatically accelerate your systems engineering work, this class is for you.

Students will model a Scanning Electron Microscope (both hardware and software) as their lab exercise, learning how to ask the right questions (i.e. prompts) to get help from AI in constructing the model.

By the end of this 3-day class, participants:

•  will learn how to use AI as a "subject matter expert" in defining the system/software model. 
•  will be familiar with "the four pillars of SysML" (Requirements, Structure, Behavior and Parametrics)
•  will also know how to structure their SysML models to account for software, 
  • generate User Interface Code from Behavior Models, 
  • generate Database Code from Structure Models, 
  • generate Microcontroller Code from State Machines

The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the Magicdraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach for handling complex behaviors when developing software.

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is an architecture framework for the United States Department of Defense, that provides structure for a specific stakeholder concern through viewpoints organized by various views.

DoDAF defines a set of views that act as mechanisms for visualizing, understanding, and assimilating the broad scope and complexities of an architecture description through tabular, structural, behavioral, ontological, pictorial, temporal or graphical means.

It is especially suited to large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges, and is apparently unique in its use of operational views detailing the external customer's operating domain in which the developing system will operate.

This course is for everyone involved in planning, analysing, implementing, executing, maintaining or improving Enterprise Architectures. It shows comprehensive perspective of tools used to describe and implement the EA.

This Introduction to Enterprise Architect training course is designed for all persons who wish to use Sparx Systems’ UML modelling tool, Enterprise Architect, for their modelling activities yet are unfamiliar with the features, functions and use of Enterprise Architect.

Objective

This training course aims at helping attendees to understand the most used Enterprise Architectures and rules to follow up in their construction to succeed with an appropriate architecture scenario for their organisation.

Thanks to the selection of appropriate architecture layers, components and traceability links that are to be established from the business layer to the technical layer, the resulting enterprise architecture framework allows you a good impact analysis in the face of evolutions of the business decisions and anticipates mutations of the corresponding information system components.

Using a combination of lectures, demos, and interactive labs, this course showcases the foundations for building and maintaining an Enterprise Architecture (EA) utilizing the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) version 1.2.

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design approach where decoupled components communicate by producing and consuming events, enabling highly scalable, responsive, and resilient systems.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level Go developers who want to learn how to design, build, and deploy event-driven applications using Go and common messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.

Through hands-on labs and real-world examples, participants will gain practical skills in building decoupled services, managing messaging infrastructure, and deploying scalable event-based systems in modern cloud-native environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand key concepts and trade-offs in Event-Driven Architecture.
• Design and implement event producers and consumers in Go.
• Use messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS with Go.
• Set up and manage event infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Apply best practices for error handling, monitoring, and deployment.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Course Objectives

To provide an understanding of the essentials of embedded GNU/Linux, how the bits and pieces fit together. What components are needed to build an embedded GNU/Linux system, where to get them from and how to configure/build/install them? Where to get help from? What about those software licenses? Hands-on exercises provide you with the necessary practical experience to go ahead and develop your own embedded GNU/Linux systems after completing this training successfully.

Description

This five day training class uses hands-on exercises combined with instruction to illustrate the concepts of embedded GNU/Linux. It is designed to bring you quickly up to speed. The philosophy, concepts and commands necessary to make effective use of GNU/Linux are described through a combination of theory and on-the-job training.

Don't reinvent the wheel, but learn from an experienced trainer and take home a working knowledge of GNU/Linux and the ability to use it effectively in your own embedded development project.

Who should attend?

Managers, project managers, software-, hardware-, development-, systems engineers, testers, administrators, technicians and other parties interested in the technology, who want to understand as quickly as possible how Embedded GNU/Linux works. You must use GNU/Linux or you have to luxury to decide whether it makes sense to use it or not. Maybe you already tried to use Embedded GNU/Linux, but are not quite sure that you did everything the right way. You currently use a different operating system and wand to figure out whether GNU/Linux might better and/or cheaper.

Delivery Options

All the training material is English, but the presentation of it can be in English or in German, as you wish, worldwide.

• on-site - instructor driven
• on-line - instructor driven
• on-site/on-line combination - instructor driven

This course is designed for anyone who needs an understanding of IT Service Management to help deliver better value to customers. It is appropriate for all IT staff and management, as well as customers who work closely with IT to support business requirements. This course is also designed for students who are seeking the ITIL® 4 Foundation certification and who want to prepare for ITIL® 4 Foundation exam.

ITIL 4® Foundation enables candidates to look at IT Service Management through an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery and continual improvement of tech-enabled products and services.

ITIL 4® Foundation equips candidates with:

• A holistic approach to the facilitation of co-creation of value with customers and other stakeholders in the form of products and services
• The guiding principles of ITIL 4®
• The four dimensions of Service Management
• Key concepts from Lean, Agile, DevOps, and why these are important to deliver business value
• How ITIL practices described in ITIL 4® will maintain the value and importance provided by the current ITIL® processes, whilst at the same time expand to be integrated to different areas of service management and IT, from demand to value.

Who is ITIL 4® Foundation for:

ITIL 4® Foundation is suitable for individuals who require a basic understanding of the ITIL® framework and how it may be used to enhance the quality of IT service management within an organization. The certification also applies to IT professionals who work within an organization that has adopted ITIL® and so need to be aware of and contribute to the overall service improvement programme.

ITIL 4® continues to support the ITSM community while expanding to a wider range of professionals working in the digital world, guiding how IT interfaces with, and leads the wider business strategy.

The ITIL® 5 Foundation course is designed for professionals working in IT, digital or business roles who need a clear understanding of service management principles.

It is suitable both for individuals new to ITIL and for those familiar with earlier versions who want to update their knowledge.

The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. This training covers the fundamentals of creating templates and generating reports within the MagicDraw/Cameo tool suite, and teaches how macros and scripts work inside MagicDraw and what they can be applied to.

The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. This training is also designed to provide professionals with a background behind architectural simulation, an introduction to the Simulation Toolkit plugin, the simulation of multiple diagram types, and how to tie diagram simulations together to automate the architecture.​

The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. This training teaches the core concepts and features of validation rules, validation suites, and model metrics and is designed to introduce the core concepts and features of developing and utilizing model queries in MagicDraw/Cameo.​

The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. This training provides a basic introduction to the core concepts and features of CATIA No Magic’s Teamwork Cloud, along with introducing the core concepts and features of Domain Specific Languages (DSL) in MagicDraw.​

In this instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids, participants will learn how to evaluate different technologies and approaches for the design of a services-based system architecture. The training begins with a discussion and comparison of monolithic systems and service architectures, then digs into the details of microservice architecture.

Participants are given a chance to put their knowledge into practice as they step through the creation and deployment of a set of proof-of-concept microservices built with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot and Docker.
Finally, the relevant infrastructure building blocks are examined to help participants determine the most suitable tools and approaches to use for different organizational requirements.
By the end of this training, participants will have a solid understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservice Architecture as well practical experience using Spring Cloud and related Spring technologies for rapidly developing their own cloud-scale, cloud-ready microservices.

This instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to understand and apply NAF to support enterprise architecture design and decision-making across defense-related projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the structure and purpose of the NATO Architecture Framework.
• Identify and describe various architecture views within NAF.
• Map stakeholder requirements to architectural components.
• Use tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect to create NAF-compliant models.

Objective : This course aims at helping attendees understand how to put in practice the UAF and NAF enterprise architecture frameworks.

Understanding concepts of the UAF 1.1 in the context of the NATO NAF v4 Architecture Framework is very beneficial as the Domain Meta-model (DMM) of UAF describes various stakeholder concerns associated with a system, such as security, information or measurements through a set of predefined viewpoints and then mapped to the corresponding views in NAFv4.

On the other hand, the Architecture Stages of the NATO NAFv4 Methodology helps to understand how to make use efficiently of the views of the UAF to ensure coherence and completeness while enabling traceability from high-level goals until personal and physical resources that need be deployed to realize them.

Concepts and techniques explained during the course are progressively applied by the attendees using an end-to-end case study and different exercises on it.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

The OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental examination tests knowledge and skills required to construct a basic SysML model of a system. The examination covers model concepts and organization, basic requirements capture and management, structure and behavior models, parametric models, allocation relationships, and use of stereotypes. Using the knowledge and skills covered at this level plus familiarity with a suitable SysML modeling tool, a holder of the OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental Certification should be a productive contributor to modeling tasks performed by a Systems Engineering team employing a model-based systems engineering approach using SysML.  The OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental Certification is a prerequisite for the program’s two higher levels, and requires the OCSMP Model User Certification as its prerequisite. 

This examination (as well as the others in the OCSMP series) tests your ability to apply the knowledge and skills listed here in the context of a model of a system. As you study, go beyond each individual diagram to understand how aspects that it models can influence or affect aspects of the system represented in other diagram types. 

Automation Using Macros & Scripting in MagicDraw is a course designed to teach how macros and scripts work inside MagicDraw and what they can be used for. This course provides a mix of module-based lectures and live, hands-on, instructor led demonstration. Our trainers are all experienced practitioners who understand the balance of theory and practicality.

Takeaways: Foundational understanding of capabilities and best practices for using macros and scripting in MagicDraw

Developing Domain Specific Languages in MagicDraw is an advanced course designed to provide a basic introduction to the core concepts and features of Domain Specific Languages (DSL) in MagicDraw. This course provides a mix of module-based lectures and live, hands-on, instructor led demonstration. Our trainers are all experienced practitioners who understand the balance of theory and practicality.

Take-Aways: Foundational understanding of capabilities and best practices for developing DSLs in MagicDraw.

Using a combination of lectures, demos, and interactive labs, this course showcases the foundations for building and maintaining an Enterprise Architecture (EA) utilizing the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) version 1.2.

A course focused on leveraging Cameo Simulation Toolkit to simulate behaviors, execute trade studies, and automate architectures with additional modules on requirements verification, the Action Language Helper, and graphical interfaces for simulations.

A course comprised of lectures and interactive demonstrations on how to query MagicDraw models using Structured Expressions.

Full day of lecture and demo covering the core features of Teamwork Cloud / Magic Collaboration Studio including roles, model management, collaborative modeling, and project architecture.

This course provides a mix of module-based lectures, instructor demonstration, and hands-on labs. Our trainers are all experienced practitioners who understand the balance of theory and practicality.

Take-Aways:

• Knowledge of the purpose of ontologies​
• Understanding of the benefits of knowledge graphs
• Working knowledge of Protégé and Concept Modeling

This course gives a solid understanding across all aspects of OMG United Architecture Framework. It does not focus on a specific view or function, but allows the delegates to easily find more information in the documentation and easily understand it.

During the course the delegates will do simple exercises, answer questions, etc...

Sparx Enterprise Architect is usually used during the course, but any other tools can be used instead.

Our ED-SOA training focuses on building and analysing an architecture framework that builds upon the SOA reference architecture. Services are used as event generators, signifying a problem or impending problem, an opportunity, a threshold, or a deviation.

This course is intended for Post Graduate (or equivalent) level students and will be a combination of lectures and lab sessions (theory and practice).

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding.

• Understand the principles and business advantage of systems developed around services.
• Become fully aware of the major protocols and technologies involved in the web services standard, and understand how these technologies fit together. Your knowledge will extend to leading-edge and emerging aspects of web services as well as the more established elements of the standard.
• Understand in depth the technology used to enable systems based on a widely used programming language to both use and provide Web Services.

Intellectual Skills:

• Identify where the service oriented approach and in particular web services are appropriate for particular business scenarios.
• Consider the most effective design for a web services solution
• Acquire, in the future, knowledge and understanding of emerging aspects of the rapidly evolving web services standard

Practical Skills:

• Operate with current technologies associated with Web Services that are platform neutral – XML, SOAP, WSDL
• Write and expose web services in a widely used programming language and write client code in that language to invoke web services.

Objective:

Helping Analysts and Designers of the System Engineering domain to understand how to efficiently gather requirements then go through the embedded software design implementation on the basis of system specifications using UML 2 and SysML.

This 3 days training aims at assisting system analysts to express efficiently their needs and designers to make the appropriate architectural design of the system on the basis of these needs.

The resulting system architecture provides a good level of agility to the embedded system software in face of changes as it allows a coherent traceability of the business rules encapsulated in system functions and those of the usage choices (use cases) of the end-users toward the software implementation level.

This course is offered in two variants to provide a practical understanding of how systems can be modelled using the newest version of OMG's Systems Modelling Language (SysML) specification. The notation and underlying semantics of SysML are explained in a way that allows students to apply what they learn to any suitable system modelling method or tool.

In this instructor-led, live training in Grand Rapids (online or onsite), participants will learn how to use SysML as implemented in Enterprise Architect (EA) to carry out system requirements analysis and modeling.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and apply SysML to Systems Engineering projects, using a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach.
• Identify system requirements based on use case models.
• Design and analyze system architecture.

This practical training will show you how to use efficiently the SysML modeling language. You will discover in particular the block diagrams for structural modeling of complex systems. You will deepen the sequence diagram, the state diagram and activity diagram for dynamic modeling. You will also learn to use specific SysML diagrams, such as the requirements diagram and the parametric diagram, as well as the important concept of allocation. We will also focus on the need to define a modeling approach, adapted to the context of the company and the type of system to be studied. We will finally see what is the state of the art of SysML modeling tools.

Audience:

Project managers, architects, system engineers, having to model complex systems including both software and hardware

Teaching Method:

• Theoretical presentation with examples
• Case Study on paper (demo of a SysML tool by the trainer)

This course is designed to teach Systems Modeling Language (SysML) from a reviewer's perspective, along with an introduction to the Cameo Collaborator tool.

Building complex enterprise applications is very challenging in an ever-changing environment.

Changes in the integration between services or systems will trigger changes in the design of the system. This course covers how to design maintainable, fit to the size and purpose of your organisation service and systems architecture and practical infrastructure.

This course covers common problems with building the landscape of distributed apps, starting from integration problem, infrastructure and modern approaches, to solving complexity issues.

This course explains the pros and cons of each solution (e.g. traditional SOA vs Microservice architecture), available tools (mostly open-source) supporting the development and maintenance, etc..

Course Format

It is mostly discussion (with limited presentations).

With the emergence of very complex distributed systems, complexity of a single system moved to the complexity of the architecture of the group of systems. This course covers the relationship of Software Architecture with Technical Enterprise Architecture. These two areas are interrelated in a way which currently is not well described. For example, splitting complex monolithic system into two systems communicating via web services will trigger substantial changes to both the new systems, and the architecture between them.

This course will cover trade-offs, currently common patterns and solutions for managing complex systems and communication within and between them.

The course is designed for analysts, designers, developers, testers and project managers.

The workshop presents a problem analysis, design and documentation systems using UML and Enterprise Architect of Sparx Systems. During the training will be presented to the advanced capabilities of the program (such as MDA, profiles, XMI), and best practices that can greatly simplify and accelerate modeling.

Because the training focuses on the Enterprise Architect tool it is required for participants to already know how to model in UML. For those who would like to learn modeling we have dedicated training for UML.

The training method

Lecture 10%, 90% workshop

One of the fastest growing roles in the IT industry is the IT Business Analyst. Business Analysts are found in almost organizations and are important members of any IT team whether in the private or public sector.

This course provides a clear, step-by-step guide to how the Business Analyst can perform his or her role using state-of-the-art object-oriented technology.

UPDM is an Object Management Group (OMG) initiative to develop a modeling standard that supports both the USA Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF). The modeling standard is called the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM).

This course is designed for business analysts, managers, team leads and process owners to provide them with the required competencies for creating use case diagrams and use case scenarios, which serve as a vehicle for eliciting, analyzing, documenting and communicating functional requirements. Delegates will practice creating use cases in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to graphically represent the interactions between use cases and actors.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at architects, tech lead who work with distributed systems dedicated to high traffic and required high scalability and reliability.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key benefits, limitations and rules determining characteristics of distributed systems, scalable and highly reliable systems.
• Will be able to better assess what can be and what can not be achieved with such systems.
• Will know typical architecture patterns of distributed, scalable and highly reliable systems.
• Will understand the capabilities and proper model of usage of technologies, supporting scalability and reliability, systems like streaming service buses (based on Kafka), NoSQL storages (basing on Redis) and distributed processing.   

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Examples of architecture solutions.
• Real examples based on Kafka and Redis solutions.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.